Quarto

Quarto

• Quarto website presents many examples of it’s applications
• We will focus on some of it’s key uses and features that are relevant for academics and producing reproducible research.
  • Academic manuscripts
  • Presentations
  • Websites
  • Interactive dashboards
  • Data exploration and visualization

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Writing academic manuscripts

How many programs do you currently use when writing academic papers?

A common workflow of academic papers [1]

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Writing academic manuscripts

Quarto solves this problem by allowing you to write full academic manuscripts from start to finish including text, code, and visualizations in a single document:

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Writing academic manuscripts

Key benefits:

• Figures and tables are dynamically updated as your code changes

• Supports code in R, Python and Julia as well as LaTeX and Markdown content

• Easy Cross-referencing capability for figures, tables, and sections

• Documents can be rendered as Word, PDF, or HTML

• Include Citations and bibliographies using Crossref, DataCite, PubMed and direct integration with Zotero

• Quarto’s .qmd files can be edited with various code/text editors (VS Code, RStudio etc.)

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Presentations

Several formats: RevealJS, Microsoft Powerpoint and Beamer using a common syntax.

Useful features:

• Modern themes with functionality to publish your own theme.

• Interactive content: Executable code blocks, graphs, maps

• Dynamic resizing of content depending on screen size

• Functionality for slide notes, automatic transitions, timers etc.

• Easy export to PDF or HTML

• Similar to manuscripts code-based content is dynamically updated.

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Websites

Websites to act as guides, tutorials or teaching materials:

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Websites

Personal websites to share publications and presentations:

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Websites

Websites for research projects to share progress and results:

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Dashboards

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Data exploration and visualization